Guest post from Stephen Archut, Product Marketing Manager, IBM Business Analytics
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One of the top barriers to entry for predictive analytics consistently cited by businesses is “inadequate skills and staffing.” This is a significant problem because the amount of data businesses are... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Edward Burek, product and solutions marketing manager, IBM Social Media Analytics. Follow Ed on Twitter @edburek
When I was working at a large bank dealing with IBM we would often joke because we never used the term “analytics” and would instead say metrics, measurement, predictions or reports (which to be honest... [Continue Reading]

Marygrace Bateman, Marketing Manager for IBM Business Analytics software
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"I love going to the dentist!," said no one, ever. Yet we all need to go, every six months to be exact. You could argue a dentist visit is a commodity; there's demand for dentists due to the necessity of oral... [Continue Reading]

James Zante, Product Manager, Risk Analytics, Integrated Market and Credit Risk
The latest report on Basel III adoption per country and pending actions on the US implementation of Dodd-Frank highlights how regulation is changing financial services, and why financial firms are adapting their business models and operations in ways that are... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Frank van Ham, Master Inventor, Information Visualization and Visual Interaction Expert
What’s the right visualization for your data? That depends. What kind of data are you using, what type of analysis are you carrying out and what do you plan to do with it? Answering those questions and choosing an appropriate... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Martin Botha, Head, Portfolio Construction & Risk Management solution, Risk Analytics
The financial crisis has redefined the asset management landscape. Like the eruption of Vesuvius back in AD 79, which erased the ancient Roman city of Pompeii off the map, the financial crisis wiped out the old investment world order,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Eric McCully, Reporting Architect, Cognos Business Intelligence Development
Visualization of data is a keystone of reporting. Different sets of data require different types of visualizations to provide maximum insight. Fixed libraries of visualization types for use in reporting can be very limiting to a report author trying... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Michael Meisenheimer, SPM Industry Solutions, IBM Business Analytics
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More than ever, success and failure lies in the quality of the data that finance funnels to the company’s salespeople. Today’s customers are equipped with more information than ever – by some... [Continue Reading]

Guest blog by Nick Anderson, NA Team Lead, Business Analytics Client Care
Your alarm clock, your email calendar, reminder pop-ups, Facebook telling you it's your wedding anniversary (thank you Mr. Zuckerberg). These are just some of the daily mechanisms that are in place to constantly keep you up to date, on time (and out of the dog... [Continue Reading]

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